Monday, June 23. 2008

Through a strange sequence of events, chance meetings, and a short amount of time to prepare, I presented Vista SP1 to a group of about 40+ users at the West Michigan NT Users Group.

I was pretty amazed at the amount of people in the region were interested in hearing me give a presentation, but the main goal was to drive user group membership and give people some real world/candid advice from hands-on deployment of Windows Vista in a business/enterprise environment.

And, of course, there were plenty of goodies given away to WMNTUG audience members, including:

Thankfully, I did not need to put on an asbestos suit and everyone was really nice and had interesting/thought-provoking questions afterwards. I talked for about a half hour with my 25 slide PowerPoint and then we had a 30 minute question and answer session.

I'm now a member of the user group too. I also bumped into a few familiar faces from old Atari 8-bit/ST club from the early/mid eighties, when I was only about 7 years old. Back then, I was just a snot nosed kid looking for a copy of LucasArts Rescue on Fractalus! for my Atari 130XE, but this time I was presenting in front of everyone.

Pretty neat.

It also reminded me of the time my dad and I bought a 48KB RAM upgrade kit for my Atari 400, which upgraded it from 4k to 52k. It even had a toggle switch to enable and disable the extra 4k of RAM because some programs wouldn't work correctly with that extra little bit of RAM. It was our first adventure with a soldering iron and set me down the path to where I am today.